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Proposal to protect abortion patients' records faces pushback from Epic, UnitedHealth
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We so need this change or something like it. There's an un believable amount of waste and medical errors in the Healthcare system that results from poor communications between different Healthcare Institutions. I'm skeptical about push back from the big companies like epic, who use things like their own care everywhere system, that do this but only between institutions that use them, as a selling point.
I totally see the concern of reproductive rights advocates though. I think the ideal solution is to codify roe v wade into federal law and also just generally protect people's Healthcare data from bad faith state actors better. But in the meantime maybe something like an opt out? Like a central registry where you can say, hey I don't want my data to be able to go to my new doctors automatically when I see them. And then if you previously had an abortion or you're getting care for your trans child out of state or something it would be inaccessible to new health care providers. Like a federal government website where you could manually shut off the data sharing yourself for any reason.